The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-05-21
PERSONAL.

-Meat-axe critics in the aesthetic West describe
Mrs. Langtry's stage kiss as ga gurgling gurgle,
as of water trickling from kitchen sink"
Bishop Kip, of the Episcopal diocese of South
ern California, has been paid $4,000 arrears Of
salary which the diocese owed him for thirteen
years.
Mr.. Powderly doesn't want any flags to be
used by members of the Knights of Labor in cele-
brating the 4th of July other than the national
ensign.
Sam Jones says az don't know where hell
is. don't want to know, for amt headin' that
way. I'm going to let them feers as are goin'
thar find out"
Mr.. George W. Childs, of the Philadelphia
Ledger, on the occasion of his 58th birthday, was
the recipient of many tokens of esteem from his
numerous friends.
TO prove that he was in earnest when he said:
"The more see of men the better 1 like dogs"
Colonel Ingersol has bought big st. Bernard,
and the two are inseparable after office hours.
DIR. D. Hayes Agnew, of Philadelphia, after
American Surgical Association in Washington,
elected president of that body for the ensuing
year.
M. c. Galloway, who has retired from the
Memphis Appeal after fifty years of service, says
he has the consolation that he has not an enemy
in the world. Mr.. Galloway must have been
very harmless kind of editor.
Cardinal Gibbons, who will sail from Queens.
town on the 2Sth instant, will be met by deega-
ton of Baltimore cergymen when he lands in New
York, and has been asked to hold public recep-
ton when he reaches Baltimore.
Miss Jane E. Hall, of Montgomery county,
Pa, and a married sister living in Philadelphia,
have instituted suit to recover S4000,000 from
the United States government. They claim to be
lineal descendants of one Jacob DeHaven, a veal
thy Frenchman, who loaned the American govern
ment half a million francs during the revolution
airy war, and which has never been repaid.
1T is stated that the late Miss Catharine Wolfe,
of New York, had codicl to her will prepared
by which several million dollars of her fortune was
to be placed at the disposal of the authorities of
that diocese of the Protestant Episcopal church.
But at the very moment of taking the pen lntR
her hand she was stricken with faintness and had
to put off signing it to another opportunity, which
never came.
Fifty years ago the Rev. S. f. Smith, now Of
Boston, wrote "My Country, IT'S of Thee" On
Monday night this gentleman, now 70 years Of age,
but still remarkably hearty, was entertained by
the ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic at
their parlors in Chicago. Though the reception
was also in honor of the reverend poets wife, she
was not present, owing to i'll health. A very en- :
joyable evening was spent.
Miss Mary Hardin, the Georgia girl with
whom John Howard Payne fell deeply in love
when be went to Rome, Ca, to witness the sign.
ing of treaty with the Cherokees, and who re-
fused to marry him solely because of her fathers
objections was buried at Athens, in that State, on
Sunday. The original copy of "Hcme, Sweet
Home," which she had refused to sell dozen or
more times, was placed in the coffin with her.
cold Johnny Ripple" WELL known character
of Ogle township, Somerset county, Pa, is dead,
aged 81. When in his prime he could kick tin
ware from store ceiling eleven feet above the
floor. Once when quite young man he was raft
ing on the Monongahela river. The raft was
wrecked and he escaped by jumping over twenty
five feet to a rock. from which he was rescued.
He would place four and five hogsheads in row,
jump out of the first into the second and so to
the last, then jump backward to the first, with ap
parent ease.